And so here we are, the final episode of My Favourite Game - Season 6, the All-Ireland Season. And we pick up where we left off last week with Jordan Bradley of Amber Isle developer Ambertail Games talking of Neopets as her favourite game.Tonig

Season 6 Finale - Neopets, by Jordan Bradley (Part One)

Apr 13th, 2022 1h 35m

And so we come to the beginning of the end. The All-Ireland themed Season 6 of My Favourite Game hits its last game with Neopets and kicks off a two-part finale that has roots tied back to the start of 2020.As I said announcing the full guest l

Dark Souls, by Denman Rooke

Apr 6th, 2022 2h 6m

For the first time in seven-and-a-half years since the show's inception, we finally have a Dark Souls game!This isn't My Favourite Game's first rodeo with a From Software game - you have to go back to 2016 and Season 4 with Bloodborne and ex-Na

Petz, by Vicky Potts

Mar 31st, 2022 1h 20m

Talking of Petz, or any pet simulation game as someone's favourite game, is a bit of a jarring experience (nor, with three episodes and two guests to go, will it be the last time this season - spoiler, it's not next week either).But tonight's M

Burnout 2: Point of Impact, by Shane McCafferty

Mar 23rd, 2022 1h 43m

We're starting to hit the beginning of the end of the All-Ireland themed Season 6 of My Favourite Game, but before we do, we're talking of one of the most beloved arcade racing series of all time.Tonight, Shane McCafferty of Love: A Puzzle Shap

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, by Ellen Cunningham

Mar 17th, 2022 2h 4m

For the first time since Season 2’s Majora’s Mask episode with Molly Carroll of Larian Studios (then of Chucklefish) in 2015, we have representation within The Legend of Zelda on My Favourite Game again.Tonight, in a special St Patrick’s Day ep

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, by Vic Hood

Mar 9th, 2022 1h 38m

The second half of Season 6 of My Favourite Game gets underway by delving into a well-loved franchise and the hilarity it provides.TechRadar’s Vic Hood talks of TimeSplitters Future Perfect as her favourite game and delves into the sort of humo

Baldur's Gate, by Colm Larkin

Mar 2nd, 2022 1h 14m

Tonight, the first half of Season 6 of My Favourite Game comes to an end. And it ends with a debuting franchise!Here, Colm Larkin of Cardpolcalypse and Guild of Dungeoneering developer Gambrinious talks of Baldur's Gate as his favourite game.He

Ratchet and Clank, by Jess Campbell

Feb 23rd, 2022 1h 46m

Tonight’s episode of My Favourite Game is not the first episode released from a face-to-face recording of the show – that was last week with Outsider Games’ Stephen Downey on The Witcher 3 – but it is the first face-to-face episode to ever be r

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, by Stephen Downey

Feb 16th, 2022 1h 55m

Another week, another My Favourite Game.Tonight, we delve into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Stephen Downey, founder of Outsider Games, who are putting the finishing touches to upcoming point-and-click adventure Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolut

Ridge Racer Type-4, by Michael O'Kane

Feb 9th, 2022 1h 16m

For a debuting series for My Favourite Game, this is an incredible entry to begin with.Ridge Racer Type-4 is for my money one of the best racing games ever, let alone the best game in the Ridge Racer series. So who better to talk of it as his f

Pikmin 3, by Alanna Linayre

Feb 2nd, 2022 1h 23m

When you think of Pikmin 3, you think of being, for the most part anyway, a relaxing adventure game where you try to save the planet from a famine? Maybe it’s the cutesy nature of it that makes seem appealing and relaxing, right?“Oh I don’t pla

Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part Two)

Jan 26th, 2022 1h 24m

Season 6 of My Favourite Game rolls on with the second and final part of our season premiere. Last week, Ubisoft Massive narrative designer and writer Aoife O'Friel got into Mass Effect, the character and world-building within Mass Effect 3 and

Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part One)

Jan 19th, 2022 1h 10m

As of this year, My Favourite Game will have been running for eight years. And in that time, a particular series was always a regular bridesmaid - that is to say an honourable mention in half a dozen episodes - but never the bride, getting thei

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My Favourite Game - Season 6 Lineup Trailer

Jan 13th, 2022 5m 21s

Hello! We're delighted to tell you at last Season 6 of My Favourite Game - the first-themed season in the show's history as an All-Ireland podcast - will premiere starting Wednesday, January 19. For more details, visit playdiaries.com.We'll see

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My Favourite Game (of 2021)

Dec 28th, 2021 2h 13m

So here we are at the end of another year, the end of another year in the pandemic and the end of the first full year of the new consoles.And here we are with the first Game of the Year special episode of My Favourite Game in four years. We’ve

Season 5 Finale - Persona 5 (Royal), by Anisa Sanusi

May 20th, 2021 2h 16m

Two months and ten episodes later, we come down to the final episode of Season 5 of My Favourite Game.And we end with a humdinger. Persona 5 Royal, in terms of release to getting its own episode, is the most recent game to get an episode of the

Day of the Tentacle, by Wan Hazmer

May 12th, 2021 1h 48m

The penultimate episode of Season 5 of My Favourite Game sees us delve back into Lucasarts for the second time this season and touch upon a classic of the point and click genre.Wan Hazmer, lead game designer of Final Fantasy 15 and co-founder a

Undertale (Part Two), by Kitty Crawford

May 5th, 2021 1h 46m

This week’s My Favourite Game sees the end of our two-part Undertale arc.Tonight, freelance games producer Kitty Crawford talks of why Toby Fox’s game is very much meta in that it tries to kill you with kindness and why it’s a mantra she has ca

Undertale (Part One), by Victoria Tran

Apr 28th, 2021 1h 15m

When Innersloth community director Victoria Tran started discovering games, she did so while under a strict family that didn't see them in a positive light. And when she first started getting into the industry, it was after coming in from a sec

X-COM: Enemy Unknown (1994), by Fernando Rizo

Apr 22nd, 2021 1h 30m

Modern Wolf founder Fernando Rizo has a big throughline of what his favourite games are. Or rather, his favourite genre.It's reflected in the publisher he founded in 2019 and the games Modern Wolf have put out as well as his own favourite game,

Mass Effect 2, by Kelsey Hansen

Apr 14th, 2021 1h 58m

Seven years after the show first started, we’ve had multiple episodes across many series’ in the industry like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear and Zelda. But despite the number of times it has gotten as an honourable mention, there is one particular

The Secret of Monkey Island, by Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou

Apr 7th, 2021 1h 41m

My Favourite Game back again in your life. And this one is a good one as we wrap up the first half of Season 5.Tonight, Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou of Roki developer Polygon Treehouse talks of The Secret of Monkey Island, the first time we've had a M

Fable, by Hollie Emery

Mar 31st, 2021 1h 18m

When Fable developer Lionhead Studios closed five years ago this month - the news actually breaking in the middle of recording an episode of Season 4 of My Favourite Game - Bonsai Collective co-founder Hollie Emery was heartbroken. In her own w

Zero Escape: 999 - Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors, by Els White

Mar 24th, 2021 1h 18m

Yes yes, it's time for another episode of My Favourite Game Season 5. This one really getting into not only a particular series for the first time, but a particular genre - graphic/visual novels - in far greater detail.Els White of Retrace deve